S3 E3 - Grannies Ghost Story - The Breakdown

Graphic content warning - Talk of a character from Thomas Hardys novel, Jude the Obscure, finding an 8 year old hanging them self along with their two younger siblings in a closet as the example of th excessive pessimism of the time, around the 16 minute mark - skip for 30 secunds, or until after you hear the phrase "sort of harmless stories. This skip will also jump past, talk of a mother killing herself, at the 16.5 minute. Dr. Nixon: “What did we learn from this episode class? That the Victorians considered themselves similar to the Ancient Greeks, and that if it was okay for young greek males to have homosexual acts in their ‘highschool to college ages’ why would it be wrong for our Victorians males to experience and try that out as well? Which lead to defining homosociality, and triangulated desire, where a same sex relationship exists for males in a grey area between plutonic and sexual. Since it would not define the Victorian male’s sexuality at the time is was a don’t ask don’t tell situation. Then, to top it all off, we learned that Oscar Wilde was outed as homosexual during a very public court case, where he had to explain some points of interest within the case." Owen asks: "Do you think lady Hardy was a historian? Repeating the average through lines of the Victorian Era so that we could more closely identify them in our time?" Dr. Nixon : The concept of the infinite heat death of the universe came from the Victorians. Owen: No wonder their outlook on being the best thing on earth came to a depressing end. We also found beautiful ads for the following: Book Binders Sheep Foot Rot Carter’s Liver Pills Weak Babies and Thin Children - Cough and Cold Scotts Emulsion Cockles Anti Bilious Pils Whooping Cough Whooping Cough Whooping Cough Whooping Cough. There was an "explosion" following a reference to microwave cooking for 1 and 2 In that reference we see the chipped mirror place mats of the 1980s. Other References: Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure Helenism and homosexuality in victorian oxford If you would like to send us a recorded message for us us include in a future episode copy the below link! https://anchor.fm/victorianparade/message Otherwise, we'll see you on Facbook, Twitter, Youtube and now Instagram! Type Victorian Periodical Parade, and you'll find us. Also, add @gmail.com and you can email us. See you soon!